Texas shows 450 new COVID deaths as state toll nears 33,000
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas state health officials reported 450 new COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday as fatalities rapidly mount after a recent surge in...
The Texas Legislature convenes for its 2021 session
By Alex Samuels, Cassandra Pollock and Patrick Svitek, Texas Tribune
The 2021 session of the Texas Legislature will commence Tuesday under pervasive uncertainty.
Lawmakers have been...
Texas lawmakers offered vaccine despite ineligibility
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austin's top health authority is offering coronavirus vaccines to Texas lawmakers and their key staffers, regardless of whether they are...
Appeals court revisits Texas ban on abortion procedure
By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Texas should be allowed to halt a common second-trimester abortion procedure, the state's lawyers told a...
Austin opens COVID-19 field hospital in convention center
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Austin area opened a field hospital in a convention center Tuesday as cases of the disease caused by the...
Three Texas regions battered by coronavirus are out of intensive care beds
By Megan Menchaca and Mandi Cai, Texas Tribune
Health officials in Laredo — one of three Texas regions whose intensive care unit beds are full...
Top two staffers at Texas Democratic Party to step down
The top two staffers at the Texas Democratic Party — executive director Manny Garcia and deputy executive director Cliff Walker — will leave their...
Heavy police presence at Texas Capitol as lawmakers return
By JIM VERTUNO and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — More than 100 Texas troopers, including dozens wearing tactical vests and carrying riot...
Trump administration extends health care safety net for uninsured Texans
By Jolie McCullough
In the final days of President Donald Trump’s tenure, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agreed Friday to extend for...
Democrats ask ethics panel to investigate Sens. Cruz, Hawley
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven Democratic senators on Thursday asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the actions of Republican Sens....